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[–] 75 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's making me think about that "Place vs Place, Japan" meme except it's "Ferret vs Ferret held by a trans woman"

Like, other comments here are saying that this is about wanting to eradicate ferrets, but notice how Renée says "one vote from women" — so this definitely seems like TERF shit to me

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    She filibustered some TERF shit out of parliament the other day by talking about ferrets.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    This is deffinitely transphobe swiss cheese brainworms but aren't ferrets smelly?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    In the U.S, most ferrets have their scent glands removed before they're sold as pets, so they don't smell unless you put your nose right up behind their little ears

    I don't know how it works in the UK, but the ferrets I have with their scent glands intact smell absolutely fine until they're provoked, then they spray and it smells kind of bad for a minute

    Sort of like a sweaty onion

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is this a humane procedure or is it on par with declawing

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    There's some spirited debate about it in the ferret community

    Personally, I don't like it because unlike a spay or neuter, it's not really helping the animal (ferrets can get really sick during estrus if they don't rut)

    Not to mention, the spray really doesn't smell as bad as some people think

    Nowhere near as bad as skunks

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Skunks seem like amazing pets ngl

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh really? Do you know when about this practice started? My parents had ferrets a while ago and say they always stank. I didn't realize they could be descented.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    As the popularity of ferrets as pets has gone up, more and more breeders are having the procedure done

    The number one breeder in the U.S. is Marshall's, and the ferrets they don't sell to testing labs are descented for sure

    And keep in mind, that the removal of the scent glands doesn't make them completely scent free, they'll still smell like a little animal (because duh), and if you don't maintain their living environment, they will make it smell just like a dog or cat would

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    First Sunak's threats to expand the badger cull to outright extermination, then this. Why are British reactionaries suddenly possessed by this raging, relentless hatred of mustelids?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Of course she's a Covid skeptic too.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    doctor chicken camp the plague rat terf sounds like a bad improv comedy bit

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Enjoy the dichotomy between her emphatically screeching "My body my choice" when it comes to spreading the plague while also desperately wanting to control what trans people do to their bodies.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago
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    Birtain not content to just eradicate the common stoat any longer. Genociders gonna genocide i reckon.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When you whip your floppy out to show everyone

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    These guessing games are too hard for me.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The UK Labour government is endorsing mustelids rodents and this just goes to show the calibre of their party
    Discusting!! /s

    I wonder if this tweet is a reference to the recent filibuster in parliament tho?

    [CW: cognito hazard]

    https://youtu.be/jQT7UNrzQDU (the actual filibuster footage starts at 1:14 if you want to spare your mental wellbeing and you don't want to get the backstory)

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